- Hi Members:
- Here is information about the Birding for everyone Walks. It’s a great opportunity to photograph birds:
- A rotating group of naturalists will lead these walks. Missi Gavic and Bob Hirt, Alan Hopkins, and Megan Prelinger.
- First Saturdays of the month, 10 am to 12 noon at the SF Botanical Garden. Meet just inside the entrance gate near the SFBG Bookstore at 9th Avenue /Lincoln Way.
- Admission for SF residents is free, non-residents pay a fee.
- Next walk March 7, no walk April 4 due to Golden Gate Park Anniversary Events.
- Check out the SF Nature on line at: http://sfnature.org/index.html
Category: Club Meet Ups & Field Trips
Our next meeting will be Open Subject on Thursday February 6, 2020. Format your images with longest edge at 1024 and submit your jpeg’s to: projectionist@photochrome.org.
Go to Club Activities or Members Info. to see the 2020 Calendar.
On March 23rd we will have another field trip, this time to the Palace of Fine Arts located at 3601 Lyon Street in the Marina District off highway 101 near the Golden Gate Bridge. Outdoor photos are possible at every angle. Its beauty stands out against the sky and is reflected in the nearby pond. The Palace of Fine Arts was built for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, a world fair to honor the completion of the Panama Canal that followed the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire. It was rebuilt in 1965, and renovation of the lagoon, walkways, and a seismic retrofit were completed in early 2009. The site features a classical Roman rotunda with curved colonnades in an idyllic park setting. In addition, the immaculate landscape is breathtaking with a variety of plant and animal life on the grounds with gorgeous swans gracing us with their presence.
Lets meet at 9 am, take photos then around 11 am walk over to the Starbucks located at 1 Letterman Drive in the Presidio (the Letterman Digital and New Media Arts Center, headquarters of Lucasfilm).
On Thursday 02/22/2018 our Photochrome Club will have a field trip to the Golden Gate Park where we can photograph anything you like, (plants, flowers, structures, vehicles and even tourists). Hopefully there will be a few cherry blossoms. For this reason lets meet in front of the Japanese Tea Garden at 9:30 AM, then we’ll decide to either go inside the garden or check out the Botanical Garden across the street. Lets gather at the de Young Museum Café around 11:15 AM for coffee. If it’s a nice day, we can sit outside in the court.
Thursday October 27 Fall Foliage among the vineyards. Car pool from church parking lot at 7:30 AM (Ebenezer/herchurch, 678 Portola Dr.)
Bring a lunch / snack
We will photograph the colors left on the vines and ground. It is well after the harvest but you often find a few stray unharvested grapes to work with. Landscapes, close ups and abstract subjects are likely to be bountiful. You will need to be a part of the carpool (even if you are solo in your own car) because we may have to change some of our destinations based on the changing weather and options available to us in any given vineyard. Bring your tripod.
Stacy Boorn will share a few of her “favorite” Napa/Sonoma sites. We will also share various in-filed camera/photographic methods with each other. Double and multiple exposures, depth-of-field choices, composition, wide angle, macro and much more.
Return home around 5:00 PM.
As San Franciscans you have probably visited G-Square in the last three years so you know a majority of the shops in the upper floors of the Mustard Buildings are now a Fairmont Heritage Hotel and Condos. I was sorry to see those upper shops go because they had windows with interesting and unique artifacts in them. What you may not know is that the upper section of the main plaza is torn up with renovation construction. You have to enter from Larkin St. or Beach St. I first came to G-Square 49 years and 9 days ago to work at KFOG FM when the studios were in the Clock Tower building. There have been many changes…good and bad over those years. But all that said there are
still many unique photo ops that will challenge you to not make travel/tourist photos. Nothing wrong with travel shots but on this field trip we want to get a bunch of unique images of a location photographed a gazillion times. It should be fun and interesting.
Bob and Pam
Ghirardelli Square by Bob Nelson
We’ve made a change of plans for the Saturday, Aug 22, field trip. Fortunately, this change of location will mean a lot less travel, and a lot more fun! Plus, everyone already knows how to get to Ghiradelli Square, and if you wish, The Cannery is nearby as well, with their shops and restaurants.
On that morning the plan is to pack up the camera and head for Ghiradelli ready to start clicking away. The assignment is to come up with photos that are NOT pretty postcard shots or the standard cliché tourist photos.
Instead, we’ll be looking for photos that are a bit different and even “off the wall” images. Look for photos that are different from the usual photos taken of these touristy San Francisco landmarks. Let’s see if you can come up with something different!
This time, lets gather afterwards at the nearby Black Point Café, 882 North Point Street, (near Larkin) around 11 am for a cup of coffee, and some discussion about how the day went. Plan to arrive at Ghiradelli at approximately 9:30 that morning camera in hand… and ready to shoot. We’ll meet up afterwards.